LaconicsHolmes Book Company, 1912 - 302 pages |
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... dead . After - thought . His head is full of after - thought . Every old hat is full of after - thought . Age . That man never grows old who keeps youth in his heart . That man is already too old who has lost confi- dence in himself ...
... dead . After - thought . His head is full of after - thought . Every old hat is full of after - thought . Age . That man never grows old who keeps youth in his heart . That man is already too old who has lost confi- dence in himself ...
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... Dead . He that waits for dead men's shoes will have cold feet . Don't embalm a dead jackass . Pity not the dead , but the living . It is only the dead that never come back . -Napoleon . I think he is dead , said the doctor ; I'll cut ...
... Dead . He that waits for dead men's shoes will have cold feet . Don't embalm a dead jackass . Pity not the dead , but the living . It is only the dead that never come back . -Napoleon . I think he is dead , said the doctor ; I'll cut ...
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... dead who would feed the priest ? The devil is dead , but the poor still pay Peter- pence . The devil is still abroad in the world ; his other name is Ignorance . Don't dam the devil , Jim : ef thar war no devil thar wudn't be no religin ...
... dead who would feed the priest ? The devil is dead , but the poor still pay Peter- pence . The devil is still abroad in the world ; his other name is Ignorance . Don't dam the devil , Jim : ef thar war no devil thar wudn't be no religin ...
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... dead . " I have a dangerous case , " said the doctor . " Sure ye hev thot , dochter , an ' it's yer midicin - case , " said Mrs. Maloney . * " What is your practice ? " asked a young doctor of an old one . " I practice on my patients ...
... dead . " I have a dangerous case , " said the doctor . " Sure ye hev thot , dochter , an ' it's yer midicin - case , " said Mrs. Maloney . * " What is your practice ? " asked a young doctor of an old one . " I practice on my patients ...
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... dead cinder ? Enthusiasm has done wonders . Enthusiasm without sense is a lunatic , Envy . The envious are always inferior . Envy will find faults where there are none . Envy , like the moth , seeks the fairest fruit . Envy is a witch ...
... dead cinder ? Enthusiasm has done wonders . Enthusiasm without sense is a lunatic , Envy . The envious are always inferior . Envy will find faults where there are none . Envy , like the moth , seeks the fairest fruit . Envy is a witch ...
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Page 203 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 34 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Page 22 - Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.
Page 115 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 100 - To render happy : all who joy would win Must share it, — Happiness was born a twin.
Page 258 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 244 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 119 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 175 - tis public folly feeds. The slaves of custom and establish'd mode, With packhorse constancy we keep the road, Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, True to the jingling of our leader's bells. To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think...
Page 137 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.